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Bulletins Released

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Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2015: 14 Bulletins Released;
FREAK Patched
Description: Microsoft has released their monthly set of advisories to
address security defects within their products. Fourteen bulletins were
released. Five are rated critical and nine are rated important.
Additionally, the FREAK vulnerability has also been patched in this
month's set of patches.
Reference: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms15-mar
Snort SID: 21232, 33287-33288, 33705-33739, 33741-33744, 33760-33811

Title: Apple Releases Security Updates for OS X, iOS, and Other Apps.
Description: Apple has release security updates for OS X, iOS, Apple TV,
and Xcode. These updates include patches for the FREAK vulnerability
and an iCloud keychain vulnerability that could allow remote code
execution within iOS and OS X. Other information disclosure and remote
code execution vulnerabilities were also resolved with this round of
updates.
Reference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1222
Snort SID: Detection pending

Title: Xen Project Releases Security Advisories
Description: The Xen Product Security Team has released security
advisories for Xen Hypervisor. These advisories address vulnerabilities
that could allow hypervisor memory corruption due to a flaw within the
x86 emulator and information disclosures flaws.
Reference: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/

This is a list of recent vulnerabilities for which exploits are
available. System administrators can use this list to help in
prioritization of their remediation activities. The Qualys Vulnerability
Research Team compiles this information based on various exploit
frameworks, exploit databases, exploit kits and monitoring of internet
activity.

ID: CVE-2015-0310
Title: Adobe Flash Player Memory Address Randomization Design Error
Security Bypass Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.262 and 14.x through 16.x
before 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.438 on Linux
does not properly restrict discovery of memory addresses, which allows
attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism on Windows, and have
an unspecified impact on other platforms, via unknown vectors, as
exploited in the wild in January 2015.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2014-7169
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings
after certain malformed function definitions in the values of
environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files
or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as
demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH
sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server,
scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in
which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from
Bash execution. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete
fix for CVE-2014-6271.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2014-6271
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after
function definitions in the values of environment variables, which
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted
environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand
feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache
HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other
situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege
boundary from Bash execution, aka "ShellShock." NOTE: the original fix
for this issue was incorrect; CVE-2014-7169 has been assigned to cover
the vulnerability that is still present after the incorrect fix.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

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